Uninstall VS Code on Mac
Quit Visual Studio Code and move it from Applications to the Trash. Settings and extensions are not the same thing as the two caches Mole can include.
The longer article is Uninstall VS Code on Mac without losing settings. This page only records what Mole lists.
What Mole lists
| Location | What Mole does |
|---|---|
~/Library/Application Support/Code/Cache |
Included in the plan you review. This is a cache. |
~/Library/Application Support/Code/CachedData |
Included with the cache above. |
~/.vscode |
Listed, not preselected. Settings and extensions live here. |
~/.vscode-shared |
Listed, not preselected. Shared user data, same decision as ~/.vscode. |
Mole does not take the whole ~/Library/Application Support/Code folder. Projects on disk are not part of this list.
What this test covered
The app stayed installed. This was an inspection, not a completed uninstall. VS Code on Mac